<p>"Hmmmm. I think the applicant needs to have spent one summer working to preserve the rare southeast asian super-skunk in its natural habitat, and then needs to have co-authored the definitive peer-reveiwed technical paper on the skunks for Nature."</p>
<p>This applicant will not be considered at my selective school, because he/she did not receive the Nobel Prize for their paper on the mating rituals of the tsi-tsi fly in some remote African village that was inhabited by the people of the Shelmiketmo Tribe (which, by the way, only has 3 members still in existence).</p>